Boonton woman's killer: Victim's husband hit me and used my money

Claims she was in an abusive, romantic relationship with victim's husband

12:13 AM,
Feb. 7, 2014

Antoinette Stephen

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Peggy Wright
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Facing the man whose wife she admitted shooting to death in Boonton, Antoinette Stephen testified Thursday that her ex-lover Kashif Parvaiz was abusive, used her financially, and claimed drug dealers out to hurt him had delivered a severed animal leg as a warning.

"The more stressed he was, the more he'd lose his temper. He would hit me," Stephen, 29, of Billerica, Mass., testified at a pre-trial hearing before Superior Court Judge Robert Gilson in Morristown.

Calling Parvaiz's alleged abuse "lashing out," Stephen said, "It got to a point where he couldn't control his temper anymore and I ...